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IDG properties drew a record-breaking 194.9 million unique visitors for February 2016, propelling it to be the #1 technology publishing company in the world, according to comScore

Publisher sees opportunity for the NYT to become an ‘indispensable leader in global news and opinion’ over the next three years

Disrupters are innovating at a scale that most other companies can only dream of

In the UK, digital spend grew 16.4 per cent last year to over £8.6 billion, with 78 per cent of this rise accounted for by mobile spend

Press Release: As part of the Sunday Times Profit Track 100: Private Companies with the fastest growing profits – Dennis Publishing is proud to announce that it has made The Sunday Times Top 10 Rising Companies list for the first time

The publishing firm Penguin Random House is considering a sale of its illustrated books division Dorling Kindersley, Sky News has reported

British broadcaster holds preliminary talks with Canadian distributor and producer

Amazon is in talks with British broadcasters to add their channel brands and programmes to its streaming service, as it gears up to use Jeremy Clarkson as the spearhead of an attack on the pay-TV market

Online news network figures raise questions about very high valuations put on new media groups

Three of France’s biggest media investors have launched a new company on the Paris stock exchange as they seek to make up to €1.5bn in European acquisitions and one day rival Germany’s Bertelsmann

Independent integrated agency Four Communications Group (Four) has been named no.73 in the Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100 league table, which ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing profits over the latest three years

Why would a hugely successful businessman make himself an easy target for critics who suspected his real intent was to prune an occasional thorn in Beijing’s side? SCMP readers are now asking exactly the same question of Jack Ma, the Chinese magnate who has agreed to pay $266m for the paper. The Alibaba Group chairman is China’s second-richest man and has expanded from his internet base into sectors as diverse as financial services and sport

Bought by Time Inc. Veteran Eric Thorkilsen and a Private Equity Fund

Silvio Berlusconi and Vincent Bollore, two of Europe’s most powerful media barons, have agreed a €1.75bn (£1.25bn) pact to create a European rival to Netflix and stronger continental opposition to Sky. The deal is expected to be approved this evening by the directors of Mr Berlusconi’s TV company Mediaset. It will see Mr Bollore’s French media giant Vivendi take full control of Mr Berlusconi’s Mediaset Premium. The loss-making pay-TV arm owns rights to top-flight Italian football and competes with Sky Italia

It is understood it is seeking a linkup with a private equity firm that would take over Yahoo, with a publisher then taking over the news and media properties

Johnston Press steps back into newspapers as Q1 ad revenues fall 16% — double 2015’s decline

Flashes&Flames: Kevin Hand, a controversial and influential leader in the UK magazine market for almost 30 years, has died in London after a short illness. He was aged 64

An attempt by FTSE 100 publisher Relx to strip the Dutch magazine Elsevier of its name has triggered a backlash from the publication’s journalists and an unlikely coalition of Dutch business grandees

Specialist healthcare consumer exhibition organiser f2f events has announced the launch of Kinderwunsch Tage, a show aimed at providing information on fertility treatments for people who want to have children

Future used their Half Year trading update to confirm the acquisition of Noble House Media, a multi-platform publisher specialising in the tech sector. Noble House publish consumer mobile magazine, Mobile Choice, as well as trade magazines Wireless and Mobile, and complementing websites